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Lets see the Goods:y
Kent BK4 shaving brush
T&H Luxury shaving soap
3" TM Horsehide strop
6/8 Dovo Bone Handle "Bismarck" razor
Trumper's Coral Skin Food
Penhaligon's Blenheim Bouquet EDT :cool:
Great shave. :)
Viktor
7/8 Henckels Froidur worked spine spanish point with kudu scales
classic brand jasmine shave soap
home made 25mm silver tip brush (mike_ratliff brand :D )
and finish with home made bay rum
quick clean and ready to start the day
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Shavemac 2007 Forum Brush
Speick Shave Soap
3" TM Honey Brown Strop
7/8 Mastro Livi ATS34 ( Thanks Isaac! )
Speick ASL
Speick EDT
Great Shave :D
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MUSIC:
Blind Faith - Blind Faith (Vinyl)
B&B '06 Finest in Horn
Speick SC
Cattaraugus "156" 5/8 Round Point
Speick AS
Puma 91
Simpson PJ2 super
TM latigo linen
Tryphon lime soap
Moss scuttle
Trumpers lime skin food
Shower and conditioner
Lather
20 linen/50 leather
re-lather
shave 2 passes with some touch up
MUSIC:
The Complete Savoy Sessions - Charlie Parker & Miles Davis (CD)
Simpson "Chubby" #1 in Best
Mitchell's Wool Fat SS
TIPT LE 5/8 Quarter Hollow Notch Point in Custom RW Mammoth
Geo. F. Trumper Wild Fern AS
Geo. F. Trumper Wild Fern Cologne
music: In Sorte Diablo by Dimmu Borgir
new Permedge 4/8 spike point, Master's bayrum (still waitin' on my homebrew to get done), Chelsea's Soap Garden Burberry, boar brush and my fantastic new Redneck Scuttle. (ps, the cool razor stand is a toothbrush stand from Target)
Wapi 5/8ths wood scales
Simpson PJ2Super
Tryphon lime soap
TM pasted paddle
TM latigo linen
Moss scuttle
MB ASB
Bay rum splash
HWR
Conditioner
Hot cloths
lather
strop 20 passes on .5 chronium
strop 20 linen/50leather on latigo linen hanging strop from Tony
lather massage
lather
shave 2.5 passes and a little touchup. Tried one pass on the neck wtg and .5 pass across the grain. and one pass with the grain.
May have worked slightly better than usual cheeks are close to BBS neck is close as well. I may get one yet.
This is my day to re-set the lines in my beard so I haven't shaved since Sat morning!!!
I usually use my Dovo for this chore because it is actually my sharpest razor (although it is not my best shaver) But I just finished the restore on this Crown & Sword 1820 ERN, and I was very impressed on how well this one sharpened up so I decided to try it.......
Started with some steaming towels from the microwave (I am so going to add this to my shave den)
Hot wet towel prep
Uberlather:
Salter Rose Creme
Classic Shave Rose Soap
Pure Gylcerin
No pre-shave strop today the razor was pre-setup last night
Lather up
1 WTG pass
Hot water rinse
Still no stropping (Testing the blade)
Re-lather
1 XTG pass on the cheeks
1 ATG pass on the neck
This sets up my beard lines for the next two weeks
Wipe away excess lather with hot towel leaving a very light film behind
VERY carfully finish getting the beard lines straight with the edge of the blade
This is why I use a straight!!!!!
Very impressed with this razor I knew it was a good restore but this is great :y
Follow up with a coolwater rinse
Thayers Rose WH
Watch the news have my coffee
Then a nice hot shower
Followed by Clos d' Inde Bay rum AS
And off to work!!!!!
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Testing a new (~160 year old) razor
hot towels
more hot towling
Lather up! George F. Trumpers west indian limes
Shavemac silvertip... forum custom
30/30 TM Red Latigo #1
hot towel
fresh lather!
Josh Mappin & Brothers "Lancet Edge Razor" number IV
3 passes (wtg, atg, xtg)
alcohol splash
Trumpers extract of west indian limes AS
very presentable shave, minor burn no nicks. the edge needs a little more work, but hey it is new.
Nice one Jim, I love that razor!
- Scott
That is one nice razor Jim, I love the point
Wednesday:
5/8 Erik Anton Berg Oblique
Vintage Simpson's best
AOS Lavender ss
Caron Pour Un Homme a/s
Floris Original Gentlemen's Cologne
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MUSIC:
Cheap Thrills - Janis Joplin (Vinyl)
Saville Row SR 3824 in Finest
Penhaligon Blenheim Bouquet SC
Robert Williams 7/8 Spanish Point
Penhaligon Blenheim Bouquet ASB
Penhaligon Blenheim Bouquet EdT
Ahhhhhhh!! :y :y
shower with wife's conditioner (?) in beard
Double Arrow 6/8 (yes, the cheapo Chinese one with chintzy plastic scales!)
stropped 50x with 3 micron Ryobi white rouge
Williams shave soap, WBUR mug and a neon cat throwup boar bristle shave brush
1x WTG
1x ATG (except XTG above moustache and below lip - sporting the goatee)
1x XTG (except for above and below lips... 2 passes was all I need there)
1 spot needed styptic stick
homemade lime AS (alcohol, witch hazel, water, glycerin, juice of plastic lime)
Superior 70 bay rhum
Giggidy, giggidy, giggidy! After just a few tries, I am rapidly approaching a bloodless, ubersmooth straight shave! I can smell it! :)
Next time, I'll take photos!
Well I hope today is a better day than yesterday was the only thing that went right yesterday was my morning shave.......
Hot steaming towels from the microwave (I just added to the shave den)
AHHHHHhhhhhhhh
Warm up the shave bowl and the soap with hot water
Uberlather:
Crabtree & Evelyn Sweet Almond Oil
Shave creme
Soap
Pure Glycerin
Hot water rinse
Lather up with the 28mm Shavemac
Using a Dubl Duck Special #1 5/8 Spike point
This razor has the Custom Antelope scales on in
Strop 30 laps linen 40 laps leather
WTG pass
Hot water rinse
Re-lather
Re-strop 20 laps on leather
XTG pass
Hot water rinse
Cool water rinse
Thayer's lemon WH
Coffee, News, write this LOL
Hot shower
Cool water rinse
Capt Smith's Bay Rum (suffer the fires of hell)
Nice smooth feeling skin Ahhhhhhhh
Off to work!!!!!
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My shaves are so much less elaborate than
many... I hardly ever post a SOTD.
Dovo Pearlex
Dovo Best Russian Strop
Chubby 1 Super
Trumper's Limes SC
Booster Iced Limes AS
Trumper's Lime SF
- Scott
Best Badger shaving brush
Trumper's Sandalwood shaving soap :bow
3" TM Red Latigo strop
5/8 Wapienica razor
Trumper's Coral Skin Food
Nice. :D
Viktor
MUSIC:
Live At The Wetlands - Robert Randolph (CD)
Savile Row SR3824 in Finest
Penhaligon English Fern SS
J. A. Henkels #72 1/2 Friodur Inox 6/8 Round Point
Penhaligon English Fern EdT
1/25 - Solingen 5/8 round point (JoshEarl honed), Proraso tub soap.
Normal prep.
I don't know if it was the fact that I had shaved the day before (usually I go every other day with the str8) or the razor, but I had a HUGE amount of razor burn. As I noted before, the feel of this razor on my face is still harsher than my Boker 6/8 extra hollow. Unfortunately, STILL not a 'clean shave' but still presentable for work.
I'm going to skip a day and try the Solingen again on Saturday and see if it's any better.
A new restore, if you could call it that, A little cleaning, some Flitz on the blade, and it was off to the hones and strops for this Clauss. This was by far the best buy I have made on E-bay to date. It is actually easy, to sharpen a razor, when all is correct, and right in the world...
No fixing somebody else's hone job, no taking out, and establishing a new bevel, from a (new) factory grind.... This was a nice flat edge to start with and she sharpened right up.....:D
Hot Steaming Towel Prep (Guys you have got to try this, see the Shave Den Again!!! thread) :)
Warm the shave bowl and the soap bowl
Noxema face wash
Hot water rinse
Lavender Uberlather:
Castle Forbes Shave Creme
TOBS Lavender Shave Soap
Pure Glycerin
Shavemac Ebony 28mm
Lather up
No stropping this morning with this razor, since we are test shaving
Clauss 11/16 Razor
One last Steaming Hot Towel on the lather
Re-lather
WTG pass
Hot water rinse
Re-lather
XTG Pass
Re-lather
ATG pass
Not bad, not bad, at all !!!!!
Hot water rinse
Cool water splash
Thayer's Lemon WH
Coffee, Write this, watch some TV (gotta love a DVR)
Hot shower
TOBS Bay Rum AS
And off to work......:nj
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gssixgun
Very Nice Blade:bow
Shavemac, Custom in finest badger, Knot Size 23 mm in black
Mama Bear's Bay Rum SS
5/8 Bismarck, Round Point
"Tony Miller" Heirloom Latigo Starter Strop, (30)
WWR
Alum
CWR
Mama Bear's Unscented Winter ASM
Mama Bear's Bay Rum Bay Rum EDC
:) Friday
AOS Fine Badger
Tony Miller Strop
Floris JF Soap
Dovo FB Extra 6/8 RP
Alt Innsbruck a/s
Floris Vetiver EDT
Sweet, sweet shave!
Jordan
Worked through the night, alarm didn't
go off, lightning fast shave:
Musgo Real SC
Slant/US Personna
Musgo ASB
- Scott
Thanks Taz manQuote:
Originally Posted by Taz
I can't beleive I scored that one, every now and then there is a great buy on E-bay......
MUSIC:
The Impulse Albums:Volume One - John Coltrane (CD)
Simpson "Chubby #1" in Best
D. R. Harris & Co. Almond SS
Dubl-Duck Goldedge 6/8 Square Point
D. R. Hariis & Co. Arlington ASM
D. R. Harris & Co. Arlington Cologne
Jay is that a Spanish Point? Kinda looks like a square point to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jlander
Beautiful razor by the way :D
Todays shave was a virtual repeat of wednesday's the only change was the soap and a/s... so no new picture
shower
25/25 TM #1 horse hide
TGQ Pearberry soap (from the summer soap sale)
forum Shavemac brush
Mappin Lancet edge razor #IV
3 passes
cold water rinse
rubbing alcohol splash
the only change tot eh blade was another 30 passes on the hunsrueck now it is really shave ready :D
It has just a slight curve to the tip, not a real exaggerated one. Maybe 2 mm. I didn't want a W&B style, just a hint.Quote:
Originally Posted by Padron
And thanks. I really am pleased with the way it turned out. :cool:
Several days w/o shave :)
Tabac SS
Vintage brush w/ silver handle
Vintage Clydesdale strop
Dr. Moss scuttle
Vintage Swede swayback smilie
Foam collector
Trumper's CSF
Ah, the curves on this blade are absolutely beautiful and it's a fabulous shaver too :y
Cheers
Ivo
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Well that might not be so far off, from what the weather men is saying we might be having Vanilla Skies for real here again starting today, over a foot of snow is in the forcast....
First shave on this razor today I scored quite a few razors in the last few weeks and have been slowly getting them restored and shave ready...
Sometimes I think I like the restoration almost as much as shaving......ALMOST!!!!!
Hot STEAMING towel prep
Soak the bowl and the soap to warm them up
Vanilla Skies Uberlather:
Kiss my Face Vanilla Earth shave creme
Classic Vanilla shave soap
Pure Glycerin
Shavemac 28mm ebony
Hot water rinse
Lather up lightly
Quick 20 laps on leather (been awhile since this on was restored)
Koken Barber Supply - "Crank" Sway Back 5/8's
Hot Steaming towel over lather
Lather up
WTG Pass
Hot water rinse
Re-lather
XTG pass
Re-lather
ATG touch up
Hot water rinse
Cold water splash
Thayers Lemon WH
This is not a bad little shaver at all, I am really growing to like these sway backs with a slight smile!!!!!
Kick back and watch some TV, Drink my Kona Coffee(with French Vanilla creme) ;)
Write this
Hot Shower
Royall Bay Rhum AS
Then off to work!!!!
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Dovo 7/8 plain plastic handles
clubman badger brush
col. conk bay rum soap
illinois hanging strop
finish off with the original clubman aftershave
My wife likes me to use old spice she loves the smell
I guess old classics never die.:tu
shower
The "Artist", Hamberg Ground, Germany 11/16 (probably was 6/8 originally, but I had to rebevel this *a lot* due to rust spots on edge with DMT 600 diamond whetstone - maybe 100 passes - then 40 passes on translucent Arkansas stone w/ water, all after sanitizing in full alcohol immersion for 20 mins -> hair popping sharp after all this!)
stropped 50x with 3 micron Ryobi white rouge (*really* hair popping sharp now!)
unscented Kiss My Face shave cream, whipped into meringuey lather with WBUR mug and a neon cat throwup boar bristle shave brush (check out that brush!)
1x WTG
1x ATG (except XTG above moustache and below lip - sporting the goatee)
1x XTG (except for above and below lips... 2 passes was all I need there)
1 slice needed styptic stick (dominant side jowl, 2nd time this has happened to me, I have to be careful there)
homemade lime AS (alcohol, witch hazel, water, glycerin, juice of plastic lime + 40 drops lime essential oil... what a difference the oil makes! It smells like a key lime pie now!)
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MUSIC:
Year Of The Cat - Al Stewart (vinyl)
MB Beau Brummel SS
Vulfix #2233 in Super
Taylor Eye Witness "The 1000" 6/8 Round Point
Nivea ASB
MB Beau Brummel EdT
6/8 Joseph Rodgers
9/16ths wapienica honed by myself
Simpson PJ2 super
Tryphon lime
TM latigo linen
Moss scuttle
Trumpers lime skin food
Shower and conditioner left on for lather
lather
strop 75 leather
shave two passes wtg xtg
a little touchup
Skin food then a little bay rum
MUSIC:
Songs of Worship * Faith – Randy Travis (CD)
QED Violetta SC
Simpson CH1 “Chubby #1” in Best
Geo. Wostenholm & Son “Celebrated IXL” 5/8 Spanish Point
SCS Parma Violet ASM
SCS Parma Violet EdT (version 1)
Rooney 3/1 Finest
Institut Karite Soap
3" TM Honey Brown Strop
6/8 Smith w/ Chandler Sword scales
Floid AS Italian
Great Shave :D
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